34 Quotes by Roy Harper

As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.

Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you.

I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.

I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.

I've never known anything but emotional turmoil... I go from day to day in a kind of frenzied state. I can't wait to do this, that and the other.

I've listened to a lot of music, and I reckon that my records are definitely better, more stimulating, and more carefully constructed than any others. I've studied the melodies and lyrical forms of many artists, but no-one else quite seems to sustain the burning intensity of my own work.

I've never bothered much about the past, I'm always in the middle of the next step and so the past is really scattered.

I've always had a 'take it or leave it' attitude to fame; I'm much more interested in what I'm doing, rather than in anything like that.

As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.